Egusi Soup

Golden lumps of fried melon seed in a rich palm-oil soup with tender meat and greens.

Prep 30 min · Cook 75 min · Beginner friendly · $30.00 CAD

Ingredients

• 1 kg Beef or goat meat, in chunks
• 300 g Assorted meat (shaki / tripe, cow skin)
• 150 g Dried or smoked fish
• 2 cup Ground egusi (melon seed)
• 0.5 cup Red palm oil
• 2 Onions
• 2 Scotch bonnet peppers
• 1 Red bell pepper
• 2 tbsp Ground crayfish
• 1 tbsp Iru (fermented locust beans)
• 3 cube Stock cubes
• 1 tsp Salt
• 300 g Spinach or ugu leaves, washed and chopped

Cook it step by step

1. Set out everything you need
2. Season the meat and let it steam
3. Simmer the meat until tender
4. Prepare the dried fish
5. Blend the peppers
6. Mix the egusi into a thick paste
7. Warm the palm oil and soften the onion
8. Fry the egusi into lumps
9. Add the peppers and the stock
10. Add the meat and fish, then simmer
11. Taste and season
12. Stir in the greens
13. Rest it and serve with swallow